During a heavy downpour, rainwater swiftly rushes down a normally dry or trickling drainage creek bed northeast of St. Clair Sunday afternoon. Several inches of rain over the weekend raised water levels on rivers, ponds and lakes and helped alleviate drought conditions in the area. Missourian Photo/Keith E. Domke.

Weekend Thunderstorms Bring Some Flooding to Area Rivers

Heavy rain over the weekend along with snow melt has brought flooding along some streams and rivers in the area.

The National Weather Service reports Franklin County received at least 1 inch of precipitation from 6 p.m. Thursday to 7 p.m. Sunday.

The highest readings were around Pacific, which received from 2.0 to 2.5 inches.

At The Missourian office in Downtown Washington, a total of 1.88 inches of precipitation was measured from 8 a.m. Friday (March 8) through 8 a.m. Monday (March 11).

That has brought the March total up to 2.17 inches and the yearly total up to 9.09 inches. The monthly average for March is 3.5 inches. In 2012, a total of 4.01 inches of precipitation was measured in March.

Precipitation is ahead of 2012. At this time last year, a total of 7.92 inches of precipitation had been measured.